Robert Phillipson

Dr. Robert Phillipson is currently Professor Emeritus at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is known for writing ‘Linguistic Imperialism’ and ‘English-Only Europe? Challenging Language Policy’ and for editing books on multilingual education, language rights, and English language education policy worldwide. In 2010, he was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax Prize for ‘renowned advocates of multilingual education as a factor of peace and of linguistic rights against cultural and linguistic homogenization processes’.